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with florida his electoral vote victory is 332-206. bush was 51-48 margin in 2004 india 286 votes and obama was slightly less it appears against 332. i think there is a certain structure of demographic advantage for democrats in the electoral college in this era. democratic voters tend to be clustered into large metropolitan areas and in particular neighborhoods and they give them a craft an initial advantage in the electoral college. president obama got 57% or more of the popular vote in 11 states and the district of columbia and they have 163 electoral votes. romney won 13 states by such margins but they only have 104 electoral votes of basically the democrats have a bigger hunting ground and and a larger base in the electoral college and the mere hunting ground to go find those votes and barack obama into campaigns has been successful with 365 and apparently 332 this time in 303 if he doesn't carry florida. this election cycle has been compared by many people to 2004, the election and re-election of an adnan, and by mobilizing suppo
with florida his electoral vote victory is 332-206. bush was 51-48 margin in 2004 india 286 votes and obama was slightly less it appears against 332. i think there is a certain structure of demographic advantage for democrats in the electoral college in this era. democratic voters tend to be clustered into large metropolitan areas and in particular neighborhoods and they give them a craft an initial advantage in the electoral college. president obama got 57% or more of the popular vote in 11...
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i understand in florida my mother did vote early. the penalties, did any of these have an impact on the election either on the outcome or lengthening the lines of the polls. maybe about a week and a half ago reminding people that a lot of the voter i.d. laws at pastore predators >> restrictive by a lot of the republican legislators in particular were either suspended or postponed before this election. now these are all issues that a lot of lawyers are evaluating now how can you curve this or what type of consequences will be had leader but it ended up not being that big of a factor. what is interesting about fraud and this becomes a partisan issue and if the election result is and that you never hear about it again for the next two years at least. and finding examples of it is something that both parties are trying to do not just for fraud or abuse or any sort of a voter intimidation because then that we can actually hang it on the narrative and you are not seeing that happen. i think it definitely contributed because people just wan
i understand in florida my mother did vote early. the penalties, did any of these have an impact on the election either on the outcome or lengthening the lines of the polls. maybe about a week and a half ago reminding people that a lot of the voter i.d. laws at pastore predators >> restrictive by a lot of the republican legislators in particular were either suspended or postponed before this election. now these are all issues that a lot of lawyers are evaluating now how can you curve this...
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osceola county, florida for example and i know you are very familiar in the orlando area but it's kind of the poster child for places where republicans were just not anticipating this huge new latino routine population would vote and that latino population had a very big down ballett affect as well. democrats one house races in places like a roar of illinois and places like san antonio's texas and even miami-dade. one of the most surprising results out of florida to me the reason obama was able to head off the floor of is the non-cubic hispanics in miami-dade and obama have a higher share of the vote in miami than in 2008 for the rest of the state particularly in the panhandle was going the opposite direction away from the president so very surprising. >> among the people we were talking to about as well as you could have and mitt romney won 59% of white voters even more than ronald reagan in 1980. he did better among the college whites than i expected as i said the college whites share for obama have gone with this conversion of starting around 2000. they are now among them on college
osceola county, florida for example and i know you are very familiar in the orlando area but it's kind of the poster child for places where republicans were just not anticipating this huge new latino routine population would vote and that latino population had a very big down ballett affect as well. democrats one house races in places like a roar of illinois and places like san antonio's texas and even miami-dade. one of the most surprising results out of florida to me the reason obama was able...